Veteran broadcaster Kwesi Pratt has claimed there have been attempts to remove Alexander Kwamena Afenyo-Markin from his position as Minority Leader in Parliament.
According to Kwesi Pratt, Afenyo-Markin is not sitting pretty as a minority leader in parliament.
He highlighted that Patrick Yaw Boamah confirmed this on Asempa FM’s “Ekosii Sen” programme on Monday, November 17, 2025.
In a post on X, Kwesi Pratt wrote, “There are very strong indications that the Minority leader in Parliament, the Honourable @AfenyoMarkin.
Afenyo-Markin is not sitting pretty, and there have been attempts to remove him.
In an effort to distance himself from a plot to remove Afenyo-Markin, Patrick Yaw Boamah, a respected NPP Member of Parliament, has confirmed that there were serious moves to take the Efutu MP out as Majority leader in the 9th Parliament”.
Kwesi Pratt further went on to quote Patrick Boamah’s words during the interview in his post on X.
Kwasi Pratt comments follow, Patrick Yaw Boamah, the Member of Parliament for Okaikwei Central, who has refuted claims that he is eyeing the minority leader position in parliament.
According to Patrick Yaw Boamah, he has been friends with Afenyo-Markin for so many years, and he has no interest in becoming the minority leader.
The Okaikwei Central lawmaker recounted how he stood by Afenyo-Markin when some of his colleagues attempted to plot a coup to remove him as minority leader for the 9th Parliament.
Speaking in an interview on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen on November 17, 2025, stated, “There is nobody in Ghana’s Parliament who knows Afenyo-Markin more than I do. We’ve been friends for years, and we’re still very close. We share ideas all the time”.
“I was one of the people who defended him when some individuals tried to unseat him. We are grooming young leaders in the party, so there was no need to change him. At that point, he hadn’t even served a full year as Majority Leader before we lost the election,” he said.
Patrick Yaw Boamah added, “I’m not interested in the Minority Leader position. But that does not mean the caucus does not have other ideas because we are building a caucus as a minority and as a party to win the next general election, and we must be very strategic. What we discuss internally shouldn’t be discussed outside. It doesn’t help unity”.
When asked if he was nursing presidential ambition, Patrick Boamah did not outrightly rule it out, nor did he show keen interest. He stated, “God has His time for everything. I am qualified to run for the presidential primaries, but I believe everything must happen at the right time,” he said.
Patrick Boamah asserted that his priority is helping to reorganise and strengthen the NPP as it seeks to reposition itself to move the country forward.
“We’re working on fixing the party. We believe we have strong policies that can help the country,” he added.
Meanwhile, Afenyo-Markin has voiced strong confidence in the work being done by the minority caucus in Parliament.
According to Afenyo-Markin, the majority caucus having sleepless nights tells him that his caucus is doing something right.
The minority leader asserted that he might not like the way the majority leader is doing things, but that is the method that he has adopted.
He further highlighted that while the majority holds the numerical advantage, the minority excels in terms of content and consistently delivers high-quality submissions.
Speaking on Asaasepa FM, Afenyo-Markin stated, “Seeing the heat from us, I think it is his own strategy of also keeping up. I don’t see it personally. I have been a majority leader before, and I wouldn’t have adopted that approach, but it is his style. I can sit here and condemn him.
I don’t need to be comfortable with it, but I also don’t give him comfort because what he is doing tells me and my caucus that we are effective. The fact that the Majority is having sleepless nights tells me that we are doing something right”.
He further boldly declared that the NDC majority cannot match them when it comes to debate on the floor of parliament.
“In the chamber, strength exists only in numbers; in favour content favours us. I am saying that in the chamber, when a headcount is being conducted, they have the numbers, but when it comes to the work in parliament and sharing ideas, they cannot compete with us; they know that.
When it comes to debating, they do not come to our level”, he added.
See the post below:
#AFENYO-MARKIN
— Kwesi Pratt Jnr. (@kwesiprattjr) November 21, 2025
There are very strong indications that Minority leader in Parliament, the Honourable @AfenyoMarkin Afenyo-Markin is not sitting pretty and that there have been attempts to remove him.
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